---
name: "Lionel Cornistein"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lionel-cornistein"
fi1m_id: "lionel-cornistein"
tmdb_id: 2114688
roles: ["Editor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-30T22:13:18.179982+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Lionel Cornistein

## Identity

Lionel Cornistein

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lionel-cornistein
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lionel-cornistein
- **TMDB ID:** 2114688
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2114688

Editor.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2114688

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*When Evil Lurks*](https://film.one/film/when-evil-lurks.md) (76)

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## Biography

Lionel Cornistein is an Argentine film editor and visual effects artist. He edited the 2023 horror film *When Evil Lurks*, directed by Demián Rugna, and previously served as editor on Rugna's *Terrified* (2017).

His other editing credits include *The Funeral Home* (2021), *Ghost Project* (2023), *Deus Irae* (2023) and *Las Tías* (2024). He has also worked in visual effects and colour grading on several of these and other Argentine productions.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *When Evil Lurks* (2023), Fi1m 76, VFX Artist, Color Grading, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/when-evil-lurks.md)

## Complete filmography (40)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Insecta* (2026), Editor, Effects Supervisor
- *Tekenchu: The Rite of the Nahuales* (2026), Editor
- *Eyes of the Abyss* (2025), Visual Effects
- *A Mother's Recall* (2025), Editor, Visual Effects
- *Asterion* (2025), Editor
- *Biónica* (2025), Visual Effects Coordinator, Digital Compositor
- *Corpórea* (2024), Visual Effects
- *Boom* (2024), Editor
- *The Aunts* (2024), Editor, Visual Effects Supervisor
- *Illusions for Sale: The Rise and Fall of Generation Zoe* (2024), Visual Effects
- *A Game in the Woods* (2024), as Color Grading
- *Todas las cosas que llevo conmigo* (2023), Special Effects
- *Deus Irae* (2023), Editor
- *The Convent* (2023), Visual Effects
- *When Evil Lurks* (2023), Editor, Color Grading, VFX Artist — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/when-evil-lurks.md)
- *Ghost Project* (2023), Editor
- *Luz Mala* (2022), Visual Effects Compositor, Color Grading
- *Ecdisis Corporea* (2022), VFX Artist
- *The Last Heretic* (2022), Colorist
- *1 Million Zombies: The Story of Plaga Zombie* (2022), as Color Grading
- *Don't Come Back Alive* (2022), VFX Artist
- *The Last Zombie* (2021), Editor
- *Red Point* (2021), as Color Grading · Visual Effects
- *A World For Julius* (2021), Visual Effects
- *The Funeral Home* (2021), Editor
- *On the 3rd Day* (2020), Visual Effects, Color Grading
- *Pequeña* (2020), as Color Grading
- *Twisting the Aces* (2020), Editor
- *Gauchito Gil* (2020), as Color Grading · VFX Artist
- *The Teacher* (2020), as Color Grading
- *Respira* (2020), Visual Effects
- *Our Way To The Sea* (2020), as Color Grading
- *Pinball* (2019), VFX Supervisor, Color Grading
- *To Kill The Dragon* (2019), VFX Artist
- *Impossible Crimes* (2019), as Color Grading
- *Morirán los niños* (2019), VFX Artist
- *Terrified* (2018), Editor, Visual Effects, Color Grading
- *Adiós querido Pep* (2017), Location Assistant
- *Salvador* (2016), Producer
- *Monumento* (2016), Visual Effects Coordinator

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